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dunun

generic name for a family of West African drums that have developed alongside the djembe in the Mande drum ensemble
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dunun

Summary

dunun ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (48 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • dunun's subclass of is recorded as Membranophone[2].
  • dunun's Commons category is recorded as Dunun[3].
  • dunun's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04vs16[4].
  • dunun's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300214236[5].
  • dunun's MusicBrainz instrument ID is recorded as a10fdd7a-c00f-4a5c-993e-c7d215b44959[6].
  • dunun's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 211.212.1[7].
  • dunun's SEKO ID is recorded as 00308[8].

Why It Matters

dunun ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (48 views/month).[1] dunun has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] dunun is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Q14005. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_dunun_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{dunun}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/dunun}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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